On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 5:37 AM, Köditz, Martin [email protected]
[firebird-support] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> In 2014 I was at the FB conference in Prague. If I remember correctly, Ann
> Harrison told the audience that there are no advantages when using SMALLINT
> or INT versus BIGINT. But I don’t remember the reason. Was it the block
> size of modern architecture? Maybe Ann can make it clear again? Or someone
> else. Would be great.
>

I'm afraid I don't completely remember, but I'm pretty sure that the
problem is not block size, but alignment.

Cheers,

Ann

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